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What is Bootstrap?Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and JS for popular UI components and interactions. Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

What is Material-UI?React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.

Bootstrap and Material-UI can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

"Responsiveness" is the top reason why over 1544 developers like Bootstrap, while over 51 developers mention "React" as the leading cause for choosing Material-UI.

Bootstrap and Material-UI are both open source tools. It seems that Bootstrap with 134K GitHub stars and 66K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Material-UI with 48.6K GitHub stars and 11K GitHub forks.

Spotify, Twitter, and Lyft are some of the popular companies that use Bootstrap, whereas Material-UI is used by DeveloperTown, Ratio, and Code Foundries. Bootstrap has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7046 company stacks & 1115 developers stacks; compared to Material-UI, which is listed in 69 company stacks and 80 developer stacks.

What is Bootstrap?

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

What is Material-UI?

It is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices.

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What are some alternatives to Bootstrap and Material-UI?

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

Material

Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Leanstack was on Bootstrap 2. Chose this because it is wildly popular, so it’s active, has been used a lot in production, and has a ton of features. Anything you need to do from a UI perspective, there’s likely a plugin for it already part of the library. Haven’t tried the others, but we're happy with BS.

For StackShare, we upgraded to Bootstrap 3. I don’t like that they changed the name of columns, essentially breaking the grid layout for Bootstrap 2 and below, so that was a real pain to update. I hope they don’t do that again. Once we have more bandwidth, we’re totally going to decouple our markup from Bootstrap.

Cloudcraft uses Material-UI

Material UI provides Cloudcraft.co with a clean, professional looking and very easy to use set of UI components build with React. The few issues we've reported to the developers have been quickly fixed each time. I highly recommend using Material UI for both consumer and enterprise web apps. The styling system in particular is very nice to work with, and allows you to easily add your own brand's look and feel throughout the UI.

shridhardalavi uses Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a framework to help you design websites faster and easier. It includes HTML and CSS based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, tables, navigation, modals, image carousels, etc. It also gives you support for JavaScript plugins.
Bootstrap's responsive CSS adjusts to phones, tablets, and desktops
Bootstrap is compatible with all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera)

CloudRepo uses Bootstrap

We started with a bootstrap based template and then completely rewrote it due to poor design of the template. Using boostrap properly was a great experience - once you learn it and use it properly, it's simple to use and very good at being responsive and adapting to the various screen view.

Perljobs.Ru uses Bootstrap

I simply bought a "job board" template for the website, which is written using Bootstrap 2. I'm hoping to upgrade the site to Boostrap 3 when I'll have a time.

With the advancement in CSS, Bootstrap is creating new milestones when it comes to minimising our CSS codes. So elegant and beautiful yet easy and convenient to use once you go through all the classes and its elements. In addition, its JS function is impressive too.

Kurzor, s.r.o. uses Material-UI

We like the pure simplicity of Google's Material UI. It is simply too much overhead today to design custom UI styles.